The research objective is to find solutions for how companies manufacturing physical products are able to increase profitability and efficiency with products using variability and commonality. The focus of this research ...

The amount of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) deployments has increased rapidly in recent years. High throughput Internet access and operation without wires enables new innovative applications for communication, information ...

The subject of this work is the design and the implementation of hardware components which can accelerate the computation in a microprocessor-based digital system controlled by a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) ...

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) operating on unlicensed radio frequency bands are emerging in a number of application areas. They both extend and replace traditional wired LANs. Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) ...

In process design, the goal is to find a process structure that satisfies the desired targets and constraints. A typical task involves decision making related to the process flow-sheet and equipment. This dissertation ...

New methods for the design, analysis and generalization of polynomial predictive filters (polynomial predictors for short) are developed in this thesis. Polynomial predictors are a subclass of linear mathematical filters, ...

This thesis addresses two aspects of designing on-chip communication networks. One is about applying Globally-Asynchronous Locally-Synchronous (GALS) communication scheme into Network-on-Chip (NoC). Another is of designing ...

In this dissertation, the bases of the synthesis of the modular structure in new product design are examined. In a number of previous studies, the functional structure of the product has been presented as the primary basis ...

Model-based testing is a testing methodology in which the creation of tests can be performed automatically instead of manually. This is achieved by creating a test model, which is a formal description of the aspects of ...

This thesis considers the detection of incipient faults caused by trees falling on high voltage covered conductor (HVCC) lines. A tree falling on a HVCC line does not cause an immediate power supply interruption, but it ...

Active filters are controlled current or voltage sources that can be used, for example, to compensate current harmonics, interharmonics and reactive power. They offer a wide and/or selectable filtering bandwidth and they ...

Many countries have ageing populations, and changing population trends will influence the demand for houses and the type of housing required. Ageing population creates challenges for the housing market and homebuilders as ...

This study employs the theory of dynamic capabilities within the resource-based view (RBV) theory of the firm and introduces a new concept dynamic design capabilities. The concept of dynamic design capabilities in this ...

Control applications are used in automation and control of manufacturing and processing facilities to run the process. Development of industrial control applications is engineering with multidisciplinary characteristics ...

One of the aims of synthetic biology is the sustainable production of high-value compounds and bioenergy molecules. Synthetic biologists exploit fundamental engineering principles, such as DNA component standardization, ...

The Finnish Government has strongly supported research on the exploitation of various biomass fuels at the expense of fossil fuels, which are one of the main contributors to the greenhouse effect. Biomass fuels are a widely ...

Assessment of the lung function is essential in the diagnosis and management of respiratory disease such as asthma. However, conventional spirometry requires difficult manoeuvres from the subject and is thus unsuitable for ...

Reliability testing of electronics is performed to ensure that products function as planned in specific conditions for a specified amount of time. This is usually both time-consuming and expensive and therefore test time ...

This work investigated the production of hydrogen and ethanol from carbohydrates by bacterial dark fermentation. Meso and thermophilic fermenters were enriched from the environment, and their H2 and/or ethanol production ...